{"id":1977,"date":"2009-05-17T09:01:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T14:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2009-05-17T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T14:07:10","slug":"ebook-piracy-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":"eBook Piracy Inevitable? Hardly&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alexander Wolfe<\/strong> at <strong>Informationweek.com<\/strong> <a title=\"Alexander Wolfe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/blog\/main\/archives\/2009\/05\/steal_this_eboo.html;jsessionid=EUME3DTVKOI1IQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> describes the exercise in futility that has become the debate over the scourge of eBook piracy and content control. I don&#8217;t think he is trying to solve the problem, rather it&#8217;s an attempt to advance the discussion by invoking some description of eBook piracy&#8217;s impact on the content-creator or author.<\/p>\n<p>I am amazed that this discussion has been going on for so long, and yet two vital factors are consistently overlooked and ignored. The article proudly states:\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;As of now, there are no answers to how we properly compensate content creators.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How can one come to that conclusion without including in the discussion ridiculously high eBook pricing and the consistent use of an old business model on an entirely new marketplace?<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, the old system did not properly compensate or represent content creators. How can we expect the old system awkwardly grafted onto a new technology to bring them any satisfaction, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Piracy will continue as long as it is profitable. Content with jacked-up pre-digital age pricing will be booty for the taking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Wolfe at Informationweek.com here describes the exercise in futility that has become the debate over the scourge of eBook piracy and content control. I don&#8217;t think he is trying to solve the problem, rather it&#8217;s an attempt to advance the discussion by invoking some description of eBook piracy&#8217;s impact on the content-creator or author. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1977\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,8,6,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1987,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}